[s-cars] A4 timing belt change - need help with BTDT

[Wylie Bean]

Most kits include the (updated) tensioner. Avoid the Chinese-made one though! Horror stories of premature failure. 
Unless you've got it apart already removing one side of the lock carrier and swinging it out isn't necessary like the AW tech article shows. The new cars have a "service position" where you remove two bolts on each side and slide the whole thing forward allowing room to work. 

Wylie Bean
TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
90 cq
91 90q20v
92 UrS4
08 Q7 3.6
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-----Original Message-----
From: David Kase <dbkase at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:59:35 
To: <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>
Cc: S-CAR list<s-car-list at audifans.com>
Subject: Re: [s-cars] A4 timing belt change - need help with BTDT

ah, so I should replace the tensioner itself as well then?

Good info - thanks.

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, Wylie Bean <theringmeister at triad.rr.com>wrote:

> I got ECS Tuning's kit Dave when I did it on our 99.5 1.8T.   I think
> there's a link somewhere to Igor Kessel's head rebuild that I used as a
> guide (I had a tensioner failure that caused a big mess) but the one thing
> he stressed is to use the OE water pump belt, not the one supplied (at the
> time) in the kit, because of the angle of the "V" in the belt not being
> right and causing slippage and subsequent hot-running.  I still have the
> belt supplied in the kit in my garage.
>
> I don't know much more in terms of details but that much I do remember.
>
> Wylie Bean
> TheRingmeister at triad.rr.com
> 90 cq
> 91 90q20v
> 92 UrS4
> 08 Q7 3.6
> Sent on the Sprint® Now Network from my BlackBerry®
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Kase <dbkase at gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 11:27:00
> To: S-Cars<s-car-list at audifans.com>
> Subject: [s-cars] A4 timing belt change - need help with BTDT
>
> I have done plenty of 5 cylinders but this will be my first 1.8t.
>
> What brand water pump?  (sorry, can never seem to remember)
>
> What should I change besides the standard rollers and water pump?
>
> Kase, out...
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